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Suétone · Unknown

much I am going to owe to you if he buys that piece of property which is being recommended in these letters, so healthfully that he is left with no place for regret. Farewell.
Suet. letter:
master of
letters under
Hadrian.
He gave successors to Septicius Clarus, the prefect of the praetorian guard, and to Suetonius Tranquillus, the master of letters head of the imperial correspondence, and to many others, because they had behaved themselves more familiarly toward his wife Sabina, without his order, than the reverence of the imperial household required.
Military
tribuneship
of Suet.
You act in accordance with the rest of the reverence you show me, because you so solicitously ask that the tribuneship which I obtained for you from Neratius Marcellus, a most distinguished man, I should transfer to Caesonius Silvanus, your relative. For me, just as it is most pleasant that you yourself be the tribune, it is no less pleasing to see another one through you. For I do not think it proper to begrudge titles of devotion to him whom you wish to increase with honors, which are more beautiful than all honors. I see also, since it is excellent both to deserve benefits and to give them, that you will obtain both praises at once if you bestow upon others what you yourself earned. Furthermore, I understand that it will be a glory to me also, if it is not unknown through this act of yours that my friends do not...